Carrickfergus-Jim McCann

[ti:Carrickfergus] [ar:Jim McCann] [al:Live at the Skagen Festival] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.62]Carrickfergus - Jim McCann [00:01.81]Written by：Ronan Hardiman [00:02.53] [00:59.05]I wish I was in Carboniferous [01:08.86] [01:13.54]Only for nights in ballygrand [01:23.45] [01:26.79]I would swim over the deepest ocean [01:36.57] [01:41.44]Only for nights in Ballygrand [01:51.37] [01:54.78]But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over [02:06.54] [02:09.45]And neither have I the wings to fly [02:20.00] [02:24.47]I wish I had a handsome boatsman [02:33.54] [02:38.27]To ferry me over my love and I [02:48.18] [02:52.44]My childhood days bring back sad reflections [03:02.90] [03:07.51]Of happy times there spent so long ago [03:17.51] [03:21.36]My boyhood friends and my own relations [03:31.87] [03:36.32]Have all past on now life melting snow [03:45.85] [03:50.05]I like spend my days in endless roving [04:02.04] [04:04.90]Soft is the grass and my bed is free [04:17.87] [04:19.43]Oh to be back now in Carboniferous [04:28.85] [04:33.74]On that long wounding rode down to the sea [04:43.30] [04:54.48]Now in Kilkenny it is reported [05:05.23] [05:09.74]On marble stone there as black as ink [05:19.37] [05:23.51]With gold and silver I would support her [05:34.07] [05:38.40]But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink [05:47.69] [05:52.09]Cause I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober [06:03.88] [06:06.97]A handsome rover from town to town [06:18.31] [06:22.24]Ah but I'm sick now my days are number [06:31.62] [06:36.19]Come all me young men and lay me down